Overview
Join us for AAP Launchpad: Spring 2026, a special book launch event showcasing recent publications by Cornell AAP faculty. Hear brief, informal talks from each of the authors, followed by the opportunity to meet them, as well as browse and buy their books.
Welcome starts at 5:30 p.m., followed by author presentations (Pecha Kucha style) at 6 p.m.
The Authors
Architecture
- Associate Professor Lily Chi, Building and Unbuilding the City Museum and Seeding Urban Transformation
- Professor Milton S. F. Curry, CriticalProductive
- Assistant Professor Suzanne Lettieri, Junior Architects: New Paradigms in Design Education
- Judith Kinnard Early Career Design Fellow and Visiting Critic Emma Silverblatt and Associate Professor Val K. Warke, Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory, Cornell Journal of Architecture Issue 13, “Missing”
Art
- Strauch Early Career Fellow in Art Mark Anthony Brown Jr., Dirty Laundry
- Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin, Walls Wearing Worlds and Catalog with Anya Klepikov
City and Regional Planning
- Professor Thomas J. Campanella, Designing the American Century
- Professor Mildred Warner and Ph.D. Candidate Natassia Bravo, Bridging the Digital Divide in the US
Design Tech
- Chair and Professor Jenny Sabin, Jenny Sabin Studio: Biosynthetic Architecture
- Assistant Professor Marirena Kladeftira, Design Tech Innovation Fellow Daniel Leithinger, Chair and Professor Jenny Sabin, and former Design Tech faculty Marcelo Coelho, Design Tech Volumes 01
